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The Influence of Developable Personality Traits on the Frequency of Technology Start-Up Founder Pivoting.

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Title/Author:	The Influence of Developable Personality Traits on the Frequency of Technology Start-Up Founder Pivoting./
Author:	Yokom, Brett E.
Description:	1 online resource (203 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-10B.
Subject:	Personality psychology. -
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ISBN:	9798382306360

The Influence of Developable Personality Traits on the Frequency of Technology Start-Up Founder Pivoting.
Yokom, Brett E.

The Influence of Developable Personality Traits on the Frequency of Technology Start-Up Founder Pivoting. - 1 online resource (203 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

This study was designed to reveal whether certain developable personality constructs of individual technology start-up founders are linked to the frequency with which they make high-stakes business decisions. One of the riskiest decision types faced by a start-up is a "pivot"-the large-scale abandonment of one business model or approach for another-and studies indicate that the frequency with which start-ups pivot can be linked to their eventual success or failure. Naturally, the bold actions and decisive moves of the start-up are largely driven by founders themselves, and individual differences in founders have already been empirically linked to a wide range of entrepreneurial actions, behaviors, and cognitions. Pivoting as a discrete decision-making construct has long been observed and understood in practice, but only recently has it begun to attract the attention of entrepreneurship researchers; therefore, little is known about the antecedents of pivoting decisions and any internal factors that drive individual founders to make them. This quasi-experimental, quantitative exploration of two well-known developable personality constructs-entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE), and one factor from the five-factor model of personality called "openness to experience" (FFO)-found a modest but statistically significant relationship between the ESE Searching sub-scale and the number of reported pivots. No other relationships were found between pivoting frequency and the other ESE sub-scales or the FFO sub-scales. There was also a statistically significant relationship between the ESE Searching sub-scale and all three of the FFO sub-scales. These findings suggest further research is needed to determine the true nature and importance of these relationships.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798382306360Subjects--Topical Terms:

1180475
Personality psychology.
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Entrepreneurial self-efficacyIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

The Influence of Developable Personality Traits on the Frequency of Technology Start-Up Founder Pivoting.
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